the same

noun

1

: someone or something that is exactly like another person or thing being discussed or referred to

He ordered the salmon, and I had the same.

All of your classmates have begun their projects, and I suggest you do the same.

The band's last album was a bunch of bubble-gum pop, and their new release is just more of the same.

2

: exactly like each other or very similar to each other

The lunch specials are always the same.

No two fingerprints are ever the same.

3

: someone or something that has not changed : something that is exactly like it was at an earlier time

After the accident, he was never quite the same again.

Things would never be the same without you!

Examples of the same in a Sentence

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Again, these two ingredients aren't typically interchangeable, as milk is a much thinner product than buttermilk, and lacks the same acidity, both of which can impact the final recipe results, especially when baking. —Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025

Downstream along the Dnieper River, at least six people were wounded when Russian troops shelled the city of Kherson, capital of the region of the same name. —Volodymyr Yurchuk and Elise Morton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025

Members of our armed forces are not immune to the same underlying factors that are fueling the threat, impacting the nation. —ABC News, 5 Jan. 2025

But Post Opinions editor David Shipley, in a statement to Politico, said the cartoon was rejected to avoid repetition, because a column and a satirical piece on the same subject had already been published. —Flynn Nicholls, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025